System Management

Technology of the Year 2014: The best hardware, software, and cloud services

InfoWorld's 2014 Technology of the Year Award winners recognize the best tools and technologies for developers, IT pros, and businesses

Patch Tuesday: Fairly quiet on the Microsoft front

Security analysts advise applying critical Oracle and Adobe patches before the Microsoft ones

Cisco promises to fix admin backdoor in some routers

The company plans to release firmware updates to remove the undocumented feature by the end of the month

Foiled! How to beat software vendors’ sneaky price increases

Between complex licenses and the cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP have lots of ways to hike up prices. Here's how to fight back

‘Minority Report’ meets PC support

Advanced PC support diagnostics predict when devices are about to fail.

New DDoS malware targets Linux and Windows systems

Attackers use brute-force methods to guess SSH passwords and install the malware on Linux servers

University of Florida gets 100Gbps link to Internet2, upgrades campus research net to 200Gbps

Attackers exploited ColdFusion vulnerability to install Microsoft IIS malware

The malware works as an IIS module and can capture data entered by users in Web forms

Dell and Red Hat team to sell enterprise OpenStack

Dell will sell a hardware system that runs Red Hat's OpenStack implemention

As Unix fades away from data centers, it’s unclear what’s next

Linux is gaining ground today, but a cloud OS or some other new technology may become more important in time